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Add separate gravitational and centrifugal acceleration #19

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leouieda opened this issue Jan 10, 2020 · 1 comment
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Add separate gravitational and centrifugal acceleration #19

leouieda opened this issue Jan 10, 2020 · 1 comment
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The Ellipsoid.normal_gravity methods calculates the combined gravitational and centrifugal acceleration. It would be nice to have these two components in separate methods (then normal_gravity can add them). When synthesizing data from spherical harmonics, there is no point in including the centrifugal component only to remove it afterwards.

@leouieda leouieda added enhancement Idea or request for a new feature help wanted labels Jan 10, 2020
@leouieda leouieda changed the title Add separate gravitation and centrigugal acceleration Add separate gravitation and centrifugal acceleration Jan 10, 2020
@leouieda leouieda changed the title Add separate gravitation and centrifugal acceleration Add separate gravitational and centrifugal acceleration Jan 10, 2020
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This is not possible for the ellipsoid as defined here. The Li & Goetze formula require constant gravity potential at the surface, hence separating the two components is not possible without rederiving all of the equations. That's beyond the scope of what we can do here.

@leouieda leouieda closed this as not planned Won't fix, can't repro, duplicate, stale Jun 10, 2022
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